The Donald

[sirs]

No....the other one.  Notice how fast the left and media came out in trying to denounce folks like Bundy, as well as Trump.  All the designated colored celebrities & pundits castigating Bundy as everything but wearing a white sheet.  Yea, he has some rather ignorant thought processes, bordering on racist, but what he really came across as was definitely inarticulate

Now comes Sterling.  A fella who has had multiple allegations of racial rhetoric, when not down right acts.  But he's RICH, and he gives tons of $$$$$ to organizations like the NAACP, not to mention Democrats and their causes across the spectrum.  Yet, even now, when he demonstrates a mindset straight out of the plantations, where he's so kind as to give "them" clothes, cars, houses, that they should now how good "they've" got it on his plantation, I mean sports organization

And what did the NAACP do today?  They fell all over themselves trying to criticize his statements, yet giving him all kinds of life line to return to the good graces of the NAACP.  Wouldn't even indicate how much he had given the organization  They knew what this man was all about, they had direct testimony from the likes of Elgin Baylor.  But apparently didn't blink an eye......all that $$$$$$.  Well, apparently for some folks on the left and organizations like the NAACP, as long as you give lots of $$$$$$ to them, they can look the other way.  Even if you're a flat out racist 

Pretty despicable....by everyone involved

[sirs]

Riddle me this......now that this Liberal "Republican" has been outed for what most folks already knew was his underlying racism, how is it that he's geting universal condemnation, including conservatives, and even folks from the Tea Party.....if they're such racist entities?  You would think there were ongoing criticisms of how the Donald was "manipuated" by the dastardly misstress, from the likes of ...... Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, etc. 

What gives?

[Plane]

   Trial by media is fast.

And..

    Racism isn't what it used to be.

[sirs]

Which of course begs the question, what the hell is the NAACP's parameters for achieving their life time service award, which the Don was all set up to receive? 

Or is the better question, how much money does it take to get the NAACP to look the other way?  That's the question that was asked during their press conference yesterday, that not so surprisingly was neither answered, nor followed up on by any one else

[Xavier_Onassis]

The NAACP was trolling for donations, as do all charities.

Sterling was punished because he lost advertising revenue for the NBA. His remarks were stupid.

Donald Trump is clearly an egotistical asshole and a lout, Only such a person would have said all that stupid stuff like "I have investigators in Hawaii searching for data on Obama and we are surprised at what we are finding?" and then what did he surprise us with?  Not a damned thing. All Trump wants is publicity. He is not a republican or a Democrat: he's a Trumpist.

[Plane]

Sterling was punished because he lost advertising revenue for the NBA.....................

  I have to admit , that is a really good point.

[Christians4LessGvt]

losing some ad revenue....yes so punished! 

the guy is in his eighties

he is worth almost 2 billion

will the outraged NAACP turn down the money if he leaves them a bundle in his will?

ha ha....yeah sure

[Plane]

  This is the maximum penalty that the NBA can do to him.

   The money is worse on the NBA than on the Clippers owner, losing sponsors or worse loosing audience is a real threat to the NBA.

  I think that the opprobrium is going to harm him more than the fine.

[Xavier_Onassis]

All games involve two teams: when the Clippers play another team, they split the ad revenues.

I do not much care what happens to Sterling.

Sometimes one hears "If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?"

With Sterling is the reverse, "Since you are so rich, how can you be so stupid?"  That conversation with his GF was the dumbest exchange I think I have ever heard from sober celebrities. 

I do not care what becomes of Sterling, the Clippers or the NBA. They could all be spun off the planet this afternoon and I would not care.

[sirs]

I do not much care what happens to Sterling.

Though if this fella was a Koch brother, with all those billions in net worth, and/or donated exclusively to Republican causes & candidates, you'd care far more     

[Xavier_Onassis]

I would not care more about his ownership of an NBA team. I might favor raising his taxes.

[sirs]

My comments have nothing to do with his ownership of an NBA team or what you support in general.  I think I made it specfic to what party he supports and donates to

[Xavier_Onassis]

Not that I care.

[sirs]

Of course you don't.  He supports Democrats and their causes.  If he supported Republicans and their causes, you'd be singing a different screeching Koch-brothers-like tune

[Christians4LessGvt]

The NBA's Slippery Sterling Slope:
Haters Target Christian Owner

by Daniel J. Flynn

1 May 2014

Loquacious Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, perhaps having visions of Robespierre on the guillotine, started the week warning of a "very slippery slope" should the NBA take Donald Sterling's Los Angeles Clippers away from him.

By midweek, following the NBA ban on the racist owner, emboldened politicians and pundits wondered aloud what other franchises they might expropriate and what other owners should publicly grovel before them. America does not sit precariously atop the slope. It's already whizzing down the hill.

That's the thing about slippery slopes. They're slippery. The ride happens fast, and the passengers, excited at the top, eventually find themselves at the bottom. Ascending the pit for the high ground doesn't come easy.

Sports writer Charles Pierce wondered on PBS "what does [NBA Commissioner] Adam Silver now do, for example, with the DeVos family in Orlando, which funds anti-gay candidates and anti-gay issue ads all over the country, as well as owning the Orlando Magic? Does he talk to them? This is an entirely new world, and if we?re going to step into it, let's step all the way into it."

It's surely a new world, a Brave New World, and 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, too.

DeVos, the co-founder of Amway, has donated to Focus on the Family, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and other traditionalist groups. He also has generously supported measures aimed at maintaining marriage as a one-man, one-woman institution, calling "respecting marriage" a "sacred issue." This outrages SportsGrid writer Jake O'Donnell, who wonders whether holding this opinion, codified into law by the majority of states' should be grounds for disqualification in the NBA's club of owners. "Hey, this isn't nearly the same thing as Donald Sterling's recorded hate-rant," he concedes. "It is, however, food for thought when discussing the NBA as a place for everyone, vis-a-vis the opinions held by the owners."

"While a racist in their midst deservedly gets the boot," Craig Crawford writes at the Huffington Post, "the NBA and its players paid no attention when one of its owners gave half a million dollars to an anti-gay group, defended it and, despite a tepid boycott effort, went along his merry way without any consequence."

Why should there be "any consequence" to holding an opinion with which Crawford, Pierce, and O?Donnell disagree? Why would making the NBA "a place for everyone" require purging it of Rich DeVos? What dystopian novel do we live in when a respected writer suggests that a sports commissioner scold an 88-year-old rags-to-riches Christian billionaire for supporting a position affirmed by 62 percent of voters in his basketball team's state and 59 percent of the voters in his blue-state birth state?

Fascism, like the devil, masquerades as an angel of light. In the name of combating bigotry, bigots, narrow-minded people who mistake their own opinion's for God's, have used the ugly intolerance of Clippers owner Donald Sterling to intolerantly enforce conformity of opinion. Rather than contentment that a man wishing to impose a racial litmus test on who sits courtside beside his courtesan has been kicked out of the league, the victory fuels a strange hunger for the imposition of a political litmus test on who sits in NBA owners' boxes. Donald Sterling and his enemies share more in common than either care to admit.

Sterling represents ugly thinking. Freedom of expression, respect for privacy, and property rights represent beautiful ideals. It's a shame that defending the latter gets confused for promoting the former. It's a shame that justifiable outrage over intolerant speech morphs into outrageous calls for more intolerance.

"In this country, people are allowed to be morons," Mark Cuban observed before Game 4 of the Mavericks-Spurs series. "They're allowed to be stupid. They're allowed to think idiotic thoughts."

Might confusing "are" for "were" qualify under "idiotic thoughts"? Welcome to the new world.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/05/01/Sterling-Slippery-Slope